Book #54 of 2022: The Black Box by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #16) Another solid detective story — author Michael Connelly’s 25th book overall, released on the 20th anniversary of his original Bosch vehicle The Black Echo. Befittingly, this volume involves a cold case from two decades prior, of a foreign journalist found murdered in …
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Book #42 of 2022: The Drop by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #15) The two cases that make up this Harry Bosch novel are both fine, but not exactly remarkable, especially this deep into the series. In the first, a corrupt politician’s son has fallen from the top floor of a high-rise hotel, and the detective …
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Book #29 of 2022: Angle of Investigation: Three Harry Bosch Stories by Michael Connelly Another three short stories featuring detective Harry Bosch, published just one month after the previous collection Suicide Run in 2011. (It remains unclear to me why they were not combined.) This one I like a little bit better on average, so …
Book #17 of 2022: Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories by Michael Connelly A very quick read, containing just three short stories about detective Harry Bosch. (Another collection of three, Angle of Investigation, was released the following month; I have no idea why the publisher didn’t treat them as one single volume.) Of these, I …
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Book #5 of 2022: The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #4) A competent if somewhat straightforward legal procedural, following the trial of a woman accused of murdering one of the bankers foreclosing on her home. Even more so than Harry Bosch investigations or previous Mickey Haller cases, author Michael Connelly gives us the …
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Book #368 of 2021: The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #3) I enjoy both Mickey Haller and his half-brother Harry Bosch as protagonists, and a team-up is always fun for combining their respective lawyer and detective perspectives. This particular exercise feels as though it needs some further twist to really elevate the material, however, …
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Book #356 of 2021: Hook, Line & Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In edited by T. Jefferson Parker This 2010 collection is… fine. The subtitle is a bit misleading — the entries are generally more like crime thrillers than mysteries per se — but as a charity anthology of original fiction involving fishing, written by …
Book #344 of 2021: Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #14) The Liam Neeson movie Taken came out in 2008, and it sure seems like author Michael Connelly was trying to ride its coattails for this Bosch novel the following year. The start of the story concerns a liquor store robbery-homicide that may have …
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Book #328 of 2021: The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Jack McEvoy #2) Reporter Jack McEvoy has been bouncing around on the periphery of the wider ‘Boschiverse‘ for a while, although he hasn’t taken center stage as a viewpoint protagonist since 14 books / 13 years back in The Poet. But he’s here again, once more …
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Book #317 of 2021: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #2) This sequel is a bit straightforward and anticlimactic, but it remains fun to watch criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller at work, staying narrowly inside the ethical bounds of his profession in general and covering his tracks well when circumstances lead him to …
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